Snow-machine.



G. REYNOLDS.

SNOW MACHINE.

I APPLICATION FILED JAN. 3. 1910. 962,917. Patented June 28,1910.

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CHRISTOPHER REYNOLDS, OF CARLOCK, ILLINOIS.

SN OW-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented June 28, 1910, Applicationfiled January 3, 1910.

Serial No. 535,914.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHRISTOPHER REY" NOLDS, a citizen of the UnitedStates of America, residing at Carlock, in the county of McLean andState of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inSnow-Machines, of which the following is a specification, referencebeing had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to the subject of re moving snow and similarobstructions from railroad tracks, and the principal object of the sameis to provide a machine of the type specified that is made in the formof a plow which is forced into the snow or other piled obstruction, andby means of suitable pulverizing mechanism the snow is broken up intosmall particles and thrown on to endless conveyers which deliver thesnow to a hopper from which the snow is discharged laterally away fromthe track.

In carrying out the object of the invention generally stated above itwill be understood, of course, that the essential features thereof arenecessarily susceptible of changes in details and structuralarrangements, one preferred and practical embodiment of which is shownin the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure l is a view in sideelevation of the improved snow removing machine, part of the same beingbroken away to expose the motive power of the snow handling mechanism.Fig. 2 is a view in front elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is a top plan view.Fig. 4 is a horizontal sectional view of the hopper from which the snowis discharged. Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view of one of thepulverizers.

Referring to the accompanying drawings by numerals it will be seen thatthe improved snow removing machine is composed of a supporting platform1 provided with forward and rear trucks 2, said trucks being of theusual car truck type. At one end of the platform a casing 3 is mountedthat incloses the engine or motor 4, and on top of said casing 3, a cab5 is provided for the operator. The engine 4 has a pipe 6 projectingtherefrom so that said engine may be placed in communication with thesource of motive power from the usual locomotive that pushes the snowmachine. A power shaft 7 extends longitudinally of and parallel with theplatform 1, said shaft being operated by the engine 4 and having a pairsubstantially of the same diameter as the I width of the platform 1, sothat material may be discharged therefrom from either one of theoppositely disposed lateral dis charge outlets 18 and 19 which arepreferably in the form of tubes that project well beyond the sides ofthe platform 1. At the junction of each discharge outlet and the hopper11 a slide 20 is provided which may be manually raised or lowered sothat passage through said discharges may be controlled.

The forward end of the platform 1 terminates in a downwardly inclinedplow 21, and intermediate its length the plow is provided withupstanding spaced apart vertical standards 22 which are adjacent thelower end of an incline frame 23 that is in the same plane andpractically a continuation of plow 21. The upper end of frame 23terminates adjacent the inlet to hopper 11. Upper and lower horizontalshafts 24 25, are journaled in said standards 22, each horizontal shaftbeing provided with a gear 26 that is held in mesh with a gear 27 on acentrally located vertically arranged shaft 28 projecting from theforward end of the platform 1, which is also equipped with a lower gear29 in mesh with a gear 30 fast on a horizontal shaft 31 journaled in thelower portion of said standards 22. Shaft 28 receives its power throughthe medium of an intermediate gear 32 fast thereon that is in mesh withan end gear 33 fast on the end of shaft 7. Shaft 31 is equipped with endsprockets 3435, and intermediate sprockets 3637, sprockets 36-37 beingon opposite sides of and adjacent shaft 28. At the upper end of frame 23a horizontal shaft 38 is suitably journaled, said shaft being equippedwith four sprockets similar in all respects and which aline with thesprockets 343536 and 37 of shaft 31 so that said sprockets of the upperand lower shafts 3138 may be connected by the endless conveyer'belts39-40. Shafts 24: and each have fast thereon pulverizing means, one ofwhich is shown in detail in Fig. Said pulverizers are referred to by thenumeral ll and are composed of solid wings 42 which may be suitablycurved, and which are oppositively disposed. The other wings of saidpulverizers are formed of a plurality of regularly spaced apart parallelbars 43 which project at right angles to the wings a2.

As will be understood from the foregoing the forward end of the machineis provided with a plurality of the pulverizers tl said pulverizersbeing arranged in pairs, the pairs being disposed on opposite sides ofcentral shaft 28, and the members of each pair being arranged insuperimposed relation. This arrangement of pulverizers provides two ofthe same for each conveyor belt that is supported by the frame 23.

In operation it will be seen that when the plow 21 is forced into thesnow or other obstruction, the pulverizers being rapidly rotated throughthe described gearing and shaft, the bars %3 thereof will loosen orpulverize the snow and the wings a2 thereof will throw the loosened snowonto the conveyer belt so that the same is delivered to the hopper 11from which it is discharged by the pressure of fan 17 so that it will bedischarged through the outlets 18 or 19, or through both simultaneously,to deliver the snow away from the track. It will also be understood thatthe lever mechanism and splined gears 8-9 and the gear 15 are for thepurpose of altering the direction of rotation of fan 17 when necessaryor desirable.

WVhat I claim as my invention is A machine of the character describedcomprising a platform, a plow at one end thereof, rotary pulverizerscomposed of solid wings and spaced apart parallel bars that project atright angles to said solid wings, said pulverizers being verticallyarranged and supported above said plow, endless conveyers supported inan inclined position above said platform, a discharge hoppercommunicating with the upper end of said conveyers, and means foractuating said pulverizers and said conve ers. v

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature in presence of twowitnesses.

CHRISTOPHER REYNOLDS.

Witnesses:

J. K. Esl-r, U. G. STUTZMAN.

